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Educating Rita (1983)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 5/14

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5/14: Julie Walters in Educating Rita is comparable to fingernails screeching on a chalkboard because she's annoying, ingratiating, and plain unlikeable.

Rita is, sadly to say, a dime a dozen when it comes to academics, and they rarely succeed because of their ADD which causes them to be unorganized in many ways. In short, she's not college material.

I used to teach high school physics, and I had a student just like Rita: artistic, witty, idealistic, and, above all, talkative. However, she failed the class every quarter because she was unfit for academics. And I found her a terrible bore because she had no depth. On the other hand, Michael Caine is excellent, but I wish he had a better co-star and, more importantly, better material to work with.

Educating Rita is best viewed as College Myth 101. As I've visited many colleges and universities, I desperately for once want to see students lounging on the lawn either studying or talking about academics. Please...just once. Also, I desperately want to see a lecture where everybody is totally engaged and having a lively discourse about whatever the subject is on hand because that never happens, either.

Oh yes, pretty please...I want to see for once a typical freshman student having weekly 1-on-1 lessons with her professor because it never happens. The professor's time is too valuable to waste on such that unless the student is either shelling ten thousands of dollars for the privilege, playing football or basketball, or sleeping with him. In that case, the professor will have to be labeled as a tutor.

Here's an interesting comment of which I agree with: "In 2007, while promoting the remake of Sleuth, Caine called Educating Rita 'the last good picture [he] made before [he] mentally retired.'" So, RIP Michael Caine the great actor, but of course, he would make a serious comeback during the 90's.

All in all, Educating Rita is a nice try, but I don't think so.